Photograph showing two unidentified workers outside a corrugated metal building at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. One man is sitting on the edge of a wooden crate and the other is standing next to him. Both are smoking pipes and holding lunch boxes and thermoses. A third person is looking out the window of the building. The number 174 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing an unidentified cook in a kitchen at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. He is standing at a table, wearing a chef’s hat, and smiling. A large pot is on the table in front of him. The number 181 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing an unidentified worker examining a slab of metal at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. He is leaning over with his face close to the slab and has one hand on a hammer. He is holding a cigarette on the other hand and is exhaling smoke. On the slab are regular rows of square holes or depressions. The number 184 is written on the negative and is faintly visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing three unidentified employees talking through the open windows of an office at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. Inside the office are two women standing at a counter, facing to the left. Outside the office is a man leaning on the counter and looking at the woman opposite him. The number 186 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing an unidentified employee in an office at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. He is sitting at a desk, facing to the left, and is holding a telephone receiver in one hand and a pencil in the other. He is wearing a stocking cap, suit, and galoshes. The number 188 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
Photograph showing an unidentified employee sitting at a desk in an office at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. He facing left, leaning back in his chair, and holding a telephone receiver to his ear. He is wearing an Albina identification button with the number 1798 on it. The number 56 Is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. The note “Albina shipbuilding” is written on the negative sleeve.
Photograph, taken from one end, showing the keel of a vessel under construction at the Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard in Portland. Unidentified workers are standing on and next to the vessel. The number 73 is written on the negative and is visible in the lower right corner of the image. Information based on the following unverified note written on the negative sleeve: “Albina shipbuilding.”
An employee using an electric swing frame grinder to clean skeg off a ship frame casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company. The caption at the bottom of the image reads, “Skeg being cleaned.”
An employee uses a prybar to remove the slag after an acetylene cutting torch has cut the riser steel-cast component at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
An unidentified employee Employee removes solidification gusset with an acetylene cutting torch from a ship hull casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company.
Unidentified molders at Columbia Steel Casting Company work under the cope of a mold. Molders use core nails to secure chills, the mold parting compound is visible (white at edge of mold cavity).
Two employees work on cleaning a casting at Columbia Steel Casting Company. One employee uses a cutting torch to remove rigging, and another uses a bar to hand chip off sand.